Xun'er's Interrogation!

Xun'er watched with mixed feelings as a Seventh Grade Pill emerged from Gu Fei's hands.

After some thought, she decided to temporarily put aside what had happened yesterday.

After all, every member of the Gu Clan harbored admiration for the strong.

Though she disliked Gu Fei, there should be no problem with offering him her congratulations for refining a Seventh Grade Pill.

She successfully convinced herself to go see Gu Fei, casting the unpleasant remarks she had just heard to the back of her mind.

Xun'er had just been about to congratulate Gu Fei and explain what had happened earlier.

She still wanted to ease the relationship between herself and Gu Fei.

After all, if a genius like Gu Fei became her husband, it would bring her honor as well.

At this moment, Xun'er could not remember at all why Gu Fei had proposed ending their marriage.

She still felt that Gu Fei had made too big a deal out of it. It was only a small matter—was there really any need to propose ending the marriage?

Xun'er still blindly believed that as long as she took the first step back, Gu Fei would forgive her.

After all, Gu Fei had liked her so much before. The first request he had made to Gu Yuan was to marry her.

Gu Fei loved her, didn't he?

Who knew that in the very next moment, Xun'er's steps came to a halt.

She had already reached the foot of the mountain and was about to head upward.

A servant stepped forward from the side to stop her.

"My apologies, Miss Xun'er. The master has already issued an Order to Leave and commanded that no one is to disturb him."

The servant's tone was indifferent, though unmistakably polite.

It was simply not the way one should speak to the wife of the master of this mountain.

Xun'er's beautiful eyes widened in anger.

These servants had never called her Miss Xun'er before, nor had they ever treated her with such distance!

In the past, even when Gu Fei was cultivating and had issued an Order to Leave, they would never stop her.

She had always been free to come and go from this mountain.

This was a promise Gu Fei had made when he married her: this mountain, rich in Dou Qi, would never bar Xun'er from entering.

Xun'er still wanted to speak, but the servant's next words stopped her cold.

"The master has decided to immediately begin refining the next pill. He cannot be disturbed by anyone."

Even a genius like Xun'er could not help but feel shocked upon hearing that.

He was refining another one?!

And judging by how seriously Gu Fei was taking it, it was very likely another high-grade pill!

Xun'er could not help sighing inwardly.

Could Gu Fei be some kind of monster?!

An ordinary Seventh Grade Alchemist would be completely drained of Dou Qi after refining a single Seventh Grade Pill.

They would need to rest and recuperate for several days, or even more than ten days, before they could recover.

After all, refining a Seventh Grade Pill not only required an enormous amount of Dou Qi, but also consumed tremendous mental energy.

Many people even injured their foundations while refining Seventh Grade Pills, making it difficult for their strength to ever improve again.

Gu Fei had just refined a Seventh Grade Pill, and he was already going to refine another one immediately?

Did he not need any rest at all?

He was a complete freak.

With the servant having said as much, Xun'er could only give up.

She stomped her foot and stormed away resentfully.

All of this was seen by someone.

"Everything can only be left to fate..."

The man sighed inwardly, revealing a calm face weathered by the years.

At first glance, he appeared utterly ordinary, yet the occasional dark glint in his eyes made it impossible to ignore his presence.

One of the Gu Clan's foremost figures, Black Annihilation King Gu Lie, was watching from above.

Gu Lie had watched the two young people quarrel for quite some time. He smiled helplessly and let out a long sigh.

That day, Gu Yuan had come to speak with Gu Lie about this matter.

With some embarrassment, Gu Yuan laid the matter bare before Gu Lie and tactfully asked him to persuade Gu Fei.

When Gu Lie first heard about it, he was naturally displeased.

After Gu Yuan left, he snorted coldly.

Gu Yuan wanted him to persuade Gu Fei to forgive Xun'er after his own grandson had been cheated on by his granddaughter-in-law!

How absurd!

Besides, Gu Fei was no ordinary man. Why should he keep yielding again and again?

But since the clan leader had so earnestly asked him to persuade Gu Fei, Gu Lie could only agree on the surface.

However, what could he possibly do about Gu Fei?

Gu Lie understood his grandson's personality very well.

He was a man of his own mind. Even if Gu Lie used his status as his grandfather to pressure him, if he did not want to do something, he would not do it.

Therefore, Gu Lie had no confidence that he could persuade Gu Fei.

And privately, he did not want his gifted grandson to suffer such humiliation either.

It was only one woman. There were plenty more in the world!

Why should Gu Fei hang himself on a single tree?

Quite some time passed again.

Every day, an unbroken stream of Gu Clan members came to the foot of Gu Fei's mountain peak.

They looked up at it, their hearts filled with admiration.

Emotion Value slowly flowed into the system. At last, the second Seventh Grade Pill was born.

The familiar dark clouds and pill lightning gathered over the mountain peak once more.

Countless Gu Clan members gathered around Gu Fei's mountain peak again to watch.

Bolts of pill lightning crashed down one after another, its terrifying pressure stretching for hundreds of miles.

Many people below turned pale, unable to withstand that pressure.

Some began to worry whether Gu Fei would be harmed.

After all, he had refined two Seventh Grade Pills in succession without pause, then endured pill lightning twice.

"Is that even worth worrying about? Who is Brother Gu Fei? Mere pill lightning is nothing!"

"Exactly! Instead of worrying about Brother Gu Fei, why not think about how to improve your own alchemy skills!"

Kind laughter rose from the people around him, and the man scratched his head with a flushed face.

He secretly decided that next time, he would go ask Brother Gu Fei for guidance.

A sixteen-year-old alchemy genius... Even if he studied and trained diligently for a lifetime, he still would not be able to compare.

Just then, Xun'er came charging over in a fury.

She stood at the foot of the mountain, her delicate brows raised sharply, her eyes full of anger.

Xun'er felt anger. Emotion Value +200

Gu Fei frowned and opened his eyes to look down the mountain.

From the mountain peak, he could see a small figure below.

The figure sank her breath into her dantian, her voice carrying obvious fury.

She infused her voice with Dou Qi, allowing it to travel far enough for Gu Fei atop the mountain peak to hear clearly.

"Gu Fei, I never thought you were this kind of person! You actually sent people to kill Brother Xiao Yan!"

The surroundings erupted in an uproar.

Some of those who knew the truth did not believe Xun'er's words. Others pondered them in secret, wavering with uncertainty.

Xiao Yan was clearly the son of the Xiao Family's clan leader in Wutan City, and he had also been Xun'er's former beloved.

Could it be that after being betrayed by his wife, Gu Fei had let love turn to hatred and, driven by jealousy, sought to harm Xiao Yan?

Perhaps he had even wanted to kill that "adulterer."

But when someone tentatively voiced this thought, they were immediately drowned out by waves of opposition.

"How could that be possible?! That's Brother Gu Fei!"

"Exactly! Would he harm an ordinary person because of Xun'er?"

"Besides, Brother Gu Fei clearly doesn't like Xun'er anymore, and he isn't someone who kills indiscriminately!"

Those who knew the truth did not believe Xun'er's one-sided accusation, and those who did not know naturally believed it even less.

They had all seen what kind of person Gu Fei truly was in their daily lives.